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October Office Hour
Come to October's Office Hour to learn more about the DRP Baserow Tracker and how to use OpenRefine for common metadata tasks!
Lynda Kellam
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Humanitarian Archive Emergency Coalition: Get Involved Remotely!
The DRP has been pleased to be part of a growing coalition concerned about the future of humanitarian archives amid challenges to foreign aid funding. In response to these concerns, a Steering Committee from around the world was convened by researchers at the University of Manchester’s Humanitarian and Conflict
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New Data Rescue Workflow and Fall Office Hours
Since our earliest days, we have used a Google spreadsheet to track and manage the dataset rescue workflow, ensuring that data identified as at-risk are preserved, curated, and made accessible. The spreadsheet has served us well for 20 months and for thousands of rescues. However, we know it is
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Understanding Federal Data Loss and Future Directions
At just about every presentation, webinar, interview, and hackathon, not to mention in-passing conversations and speculative Bluesky posts, we’re asked: “But exactly how many datasets have been removed since January 2025?” As we have stated since the start, this is an impossible question to answer for a wide
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New Report Documents Continued Staffing, Leadership Strains at Federal Statistical Agencies
Below is a guest post from Michelle Crosby and Steve Pierson of the American Statistical Association. The American Statistical Association (ASA) “FedStat Health” project team recently released its mid-year status report, 2026 Midyear Update: Resources and Leadership Supporting Federal Statistics. As someone who spends every day monitoring, analyzing, and
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The Government Just Banned Math (only mildly hyperbolic)
Getting people to care about statistical methodologies is a challenge. Hence the hyperbolic title, but give us a few minutes because what is happening matters for you and your privacy. Last night, Hansi Lo Wang, a correspondent at NPR, reported that multiple pages that mention “differential privacy” or “noise infusion”
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Update from ESIP's Repository Resilience Project
At the DRP, we are always excited to amplify our colleagues' efforts. This week, ESIP released its final report on the repository resilience project, which began at the end of last year. They have released the project's resources on Zenodo: * White Paper: Repository Resilience in Practice: Findings
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Independence Hall and Fort Sumter Are Only the Beginning
NPS signs and interpretive panels are now being removed from parks.
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A Year Ago ...
We are observing a bittersweet anniversary next week. From a positive angle, DRP has been part of an incredible community of public data advocates and volunteers. We are thankful for all of the wonderful people. But of course, "We should not be doing this," as Jessica Mahr of
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Updates for January 2026
Welcome to 2026 data rescuers! We missed you. We are back in full swing after a refreshing break. 2026 has undoubtedly been more lion than lamb, but we are ready and ... roaring. We have a few updates for this month: * Office hours * We will hold some office hours after work
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CDC BRFSS Data: Uncensored Data Now Available on Data Lumos
According to the CDC, “The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) is the nation’s premier system of health-related telephone surveys that collect state data about U.S. residents regarding their health-related risk behaviors, chronic health conditions, and use of preventive services.” The BRFSS collects data about topics
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Support for the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
On December 17, we learned from news reports that the Trump administration planned to dismantle the National Science Foundation National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). In response the Union of Concerned Scientists released a statement and a call for action. In addition, multiple organizations, including the Data Rescue Project, signed